James Redfield Quotes

I'm just a philosophical journalist, trying to describe what's going on. I want to stimulate conversations, and hope out of them will come truths.

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• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Crazy

• If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Trying
  • Girl
  • Door

• For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Faith

• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Hope
  • Cure
  • Cheap

• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Indians felt despondent about Indian governance. Changing that atmosphere of gloom was a very challenging task, and I faced many difficulties in rectifying the situation and bringing back confidence and hope.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Hope
  • Confidence
  • Situation

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Food

• As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Change

• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hope
  • Learn
  • First

• I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Hope

• We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Task

• We are trying to find out if we can use the worms or their products to lesson the impact of allergies

  

  John Britton
  • Trying
  • Impact
  • Products

• When I'm cynical, I seek out bands that are fully participating and trying to push something forward. Or I can just start playing music again - which is happening with a new project. But I think it's always a challenge to overcome cynicism and not get bogged down by a sense of nostalgia. That can be such a stifling feeling.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Trying
  • Feelings
  • Challenges

• The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Men
  • Done

• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Past
  • Present
  • Story

• We need to close the tax loopholes that have awarded companies moving out of the country and overseas; we need a government that will keep our country safe from terrorists at home and abroad... and a government that is responsive to the needs of the people.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • People
  • Country
  • Home

• I'm just a philosophical journalist, trying to describe what's going on. I want to stimulate conversations, and hope out of them will come truths.

  

  James Redfield
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Philosophical